podman

Overview

The podman driver is an alternative container runtime to the [Docker]({{< ref "/docs/drivers/docker.md" >}}) driver.

Requirements

• Install podman

{{% readfile file="/docs/drivers/includes/podman_usage.inc" %}}

Known Issues

• On Linux, Podman requires passwordless running of sudo. If you run into an error about sudo, do the following:

$ sudo visudo

Then append the following to the section at the very bottom of the file where username is your user account.

username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/podman

Be sure this text is after #includedir /etc/sudoers.d. To confirm it worked, try:

sudo -k -n podman version

• On all other operating systems, make sure to create and start the virtual machine that is needed for Podman.

podman machine init --cpus 2 --memory 2048 --disk-size 20
podman machine start
podman system connection default podman-machine-default-root
podman info

Also see co/podman-driver open issues.

Troubleshooting

• Run minikube start --alsologtostderr -v=7 to debug errors and crashes